Ainoi, logoi, mythoi : : fables in archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greek literature : with a study of the theory and terminology of the genre / / by Gert-Jan van Dijk.

The first study to focus on the numerous ancient Greek fables occurring outside (and predating) the extant fable collections. Divided into three parts, its core is an intertextual analysis of the functions of fables and their allusions. Here the author covers many different authors and a variety of...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 166
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1997.
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Series:Mnemosyne, Supplements 166.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxx, 683 pages)
Notes:
  • Title romanized.
  • Includes indexes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Modern Theory
  • Ancient Theory
  • Ancient Terminology
  • Synthesis
  • Introduction
  • Epic
  • Lyric
  • Tragedy
  • Satyr Play
  • Comedy
  • Hellenistic Poetry
  • Epigram
  • Historiography
  • Oratory and Rhetoric
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • Grammar and Scholia
  • Final Conclusion
  • Synopsis
  • Ancient Genre Theory and Terminology
  • Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Literature
  • Conspectus editionum
  • Bibliography
  • Indices
  • Non-Fables and Non-Allusions
  • Supplements to Mnemosyne.